Skateboarding: Kusaki finishes 2nd in X Games women’s park

VENTURA, California (Kyodo) — Paris Olympics-bound Japanese skateboarder Hinano Kusaki placed second behind 14-year-old Australian Arisa Trew in the women’s park final at the X Games on Sunday.

Trew won with a score of 87.33 points, 8.67 clear of Kusaki. Compatriot Ruby Trew, no relation to Arisa, rounded out the podium, finishing 9.33 behind the winner on the last day of the three-day event in Ventura, California.

Cocona Hiraki, who will represent Japan with Kusaki and reigning Olympic champion Sakura Yosozumi in women’s park skateboarding in Paris, finished eighth with 68.33.